What Landlords Need to Know in 2022
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Workplaces of the Future: The Pillars of Space Optimization
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can divide the role of workplace technology in office space optimization into three categories: agility, flexibility, and productivity. Correctly leveraged, a workplace experience platform simultaneously covers each of these points — resulting in employees who are as effective, efficient, and productive as possible. Let’s take a look at each, as well as provide real-world …
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Opportunities for the Office in 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Only a few years ago, commercial real estate (CRE) was all about tradition. The industry depended on long-term, sometimes decades-long leases. Property demand was measured by location and physical amenities, meaning that owners and operators would invest in buildings in or around central business districts. If the buildings weren’t located in a city center, they …
Inside HqO: Samuel Warren
Reading Time: 5 minutes Samuel Warren Vice President of Sales, Europe, at HqO Sam started at HqO in 2019, as the company’s first international hire. In his new role as a Vice President, he can be found having regular meetings with customers, HqO’s Go-to-Market team, and many other internal groups across the organization to ensure alignment and expand HqO’s …
Employee Experience: Spring Trends and Happenings
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spring Fever is here and good luck trying to get around it. With the shiny and warm spring days at your doorstep, remote work is starting to feel confined and offices are welcoming employees back to their spaces with open arms. Since hybrid work models are on the rise, employers are trying to determine the …
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A More Meaningful Workplace: From the Inside Looking Out
Reading Time: 6 minutes I take a lot of notes. Post-its, Google Docs, my Notes app, napkins, mental notes. I’m always listening, especially when you think I’m not. This is how I know what you need, what you want, and what you don’t like. And, usually, what you’re feeling at any given moment when I’m walking or sitting nearby. …
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Enhancing the Hybrid Work Model
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite it being the most favored approach to work in 2022, hybrid work models have a few unavoidable challenges. Most importantly, they can be difficult to achieve in an effective, sustainable manner — especially to those organizations who were not set up to transition into hybrid working prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at the …
Flexible Workplaces are Driving the Return to Office
Reading Time: 2 minutes The results are in: workplaces that can’t embrace a flexible work environment are witnessing declines in important experiences that promote a healthy work-life balance and employee satisfaction. According to a recent Insight Publishing article, Future Forum has released new insights and findings that are impacting the workplace experience (wx) for many employers and employees: “More …
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Meeting Employee Demands in the Workplace
Reading Time: 2 minutes The most important thing employers can do to succeed in today’s market is to align organizational demands with employee demands, while still ensuring that employees are empowered to define the ways they prefer to work. But, how? There are many things that employers can do to support hybrid workers and place value into the workplace …
Hybrid Work Software: Creating an Agile Future
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s almost impossible to avoid: the future of work is all about agility. The hybrid workplace model has taken center stage in the past few years, and now that remote work is both plausible and acceptable, we may never go back. Asana’s Anatomy of Work Global Index 2022 covers this change, explaining that “work-life balance, …
Bringing Them Back: Bridging the ‘Executive-Employee’ Disconnect
Reading Time: 3 minutes In its 2021 Future Forum Pulse Report, workplace messaging platform Slack revealed that 44% of executives surveyed “want to work from the office every day, compared to 17% of employees, [with] 75% of executives saying they want to work from the office three to five days a week, versus only 34% of employees.” This discrepancy …
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A New Frontier for the Workplace
Reading Time: 3 minutes The more the workforce changes, the more companies have to adapt. Work models and environments look very different now than they did in late 2019, when the COVID-19 pandemic instilled mass uncertainty in commercial real estate (CRE) markets across the globe. Since then, decision makers in charge of real estate investments have been in a …
The Top Challenges Impacting Employers and the Workforce in 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minute To learn more about today’s workplace experience and emerging office trends, HqO partnered with leading research firm Verdantix to conduct exclusive interviews with executives from leading companies across the globe at the forefront of these initiatives. We published these findings in a new report, Office Insights 2022. Here is what every employer needs to know …
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Office Food Ordering’s Role in Workplace Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutes A few weeks ago, HqO sat down with Steve Kelly, the Vice President of Business Development at Ritual, to talk all things food and beverage. Ritual is one of HqO’s exclusive Marketplace partners that focuses on enhancing the workplace experience (WX) through office food ordering and delivery. Technology enablement, in turn, makes it easier than …
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Companies with 1.6T in Combined Revenue Speak to Hybrid Work Disconnect in HqO Survey
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nearly 90% of employers surveyed have implemented some type of hybrid work arrangement, but overall they remain dissatisfied with how these models are working To learn more about today’s workplace experience and emerging office trends, HqO partnered with leading research firm Verdantix to conduct exclusive interviews with executives from leading companies across the globe. We …
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